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Author Name: Tom Sharpe

Tom Sharpe was born in 1928. He did his National Service in the Marines before going to South Africa in 1951 where he was a social worker, and a teacher in Natal. From 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology.

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The Midden

-by Tom Sharpe

Timothy Bright doesn't exactly live up to his name. He is the not-very acute scion of a successful family - that is, until Timo... Read More

Wilt in Nowhere

-by Tom Sharpe

Ancestral Vices

-by Tom Sharpe

This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyer... Read More

Vintage Stuff

-by Tom Sharpe

Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly... Read More

The Wilt Alternative

-by Tom Sharpe

Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he ... Read More

Grantchester Grind

-by Tom Sharpe

Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion - previously head porter, now elevated to Master - is showing signs of physi... Read More

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A little about me: I always knew I wanted to work with books somehow, so I studied English at university before working in a bookshop, a literary ag Read More...

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THE MAYAN DESTINY

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It is 2047: fourteen years since Jacob Gabriel descended into the Mayan netherworld, while his twin brother turned from their chosen path, opting to remain behind. Immanuel Gabriel - still running from the forces that hunt his bloodline - believes his actions proved his role in the Mayan prophecy to be nothing but an ancient myth. Now, though, he will realize his mistake. As the prophecy b Read More...

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